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THat after Walter Baggnall of Dunlickny, in the County of Cather∣lagh, Esquire. Walter Butler with a great number of men, had in a
violent manner entred this Deponents House, they not able to resist, they set strict guard over this Deponent, her husband and family, and brought them from their setled dwelling unto Loghlin-Bridge, where they kept her selfe, her husband and children in restraint for two weekes, and from thence conveyed them with strict guard to the towne of Kilkeny; and there were brought before the Lord Mount Garro; where Walter Bagnall & James Butler, brother to the Lord Mount Garrot did use all meanes possible to move the said Lord, to put this Deponent her husband and family to death and torture; alledging that they were rank Puritan Protestants, and desperately provoking, used these words, saying, There's but one way, we or they, meaning Papists or Protestants, must perish. To which malicious provocati∣on the said Lord did not hearken: And this Deponent further de∣poseth, that Walter Baggnall, with his rebellious company, apprehen∣ded Richard Lake an English Protestant, and his servant, with his wife and foure children, and one Richard Taylor of Loghlin-Bridge, his wife and children, Samuel Hatter of the same, his wife and children, an Eng∣lish-woman, called Jone, and her daughter, and was credibly infor∣med by Dorathy Renals, who had severall times bin an eye-witnesse of these lamentable spectacles, that she had seen to the number of five and thirty English going to execution, and that she had seen them when they were executed, their bodies exposed to devouring Ravens, and not afforded so much as burial. Another English-woman who was newly delivered of two children in one Birth, they violently com∣pelled her in her great paine and sicknesse, to rise from her childe-bed, and tooke the infant that was left alive, and dashed his braines against the stones, and after threw him into the River of the Barrow: and having a peece of Salmon to dinner, Master Brian Cavanaghs wife being with her, she the said Mistris Cavanagh refused to eat any part of the Salmon, and being demanded the reason, she said she would never eat any Fish that came out of the Barrow, because she had seen severall infants bodies, and other Carkases of the English taken up in the Weare.
And this Deponent saith, that Sir Edward Butler did credibly informe her, that James Butler of Finyhinch, had hanged and put to death all the English that were at Gorane and Wells, and all therea∣bouts. And further Deposeth, that she being in Kilkeny a prisoner in restraint, and having intelligence that some of her owne Cattle were brought thither by Walter Bagnall, she petitioned (being in great ex∣tremity) to the Lord of Mount Garrot, to procure her some of her own Cattle for her reliefe; whereupon he recommended her suit to the
Major and Corporation of Kilkeny; who concluded, because she and her family were Protestants, and would not turne to Masse, they should have no reliefe. Jane Jones, servant to the Deponent, did see the English formerly specified, going to their execution; and as she conceived, they were about the number of five and thirty; and was told by Elizabeth Homes that there were forty gone to execution.
Anne Butlar.
Jurat 7. Septemb. 1462.
John Watson.
The Province of Lemster.